Right now, there is $8 billion dollars sitting in an account ready to be used to be used for a high-speed passenger-train line in the States and the Central Japan Railway Co. is attempting to get its
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<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7610534.stm">Japan is widely known as the nation with the
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Japan's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkansen">Shinkansen bullet trains</a>, which are said to be among